Getting somewhere in my samba adventures... slowly

[Chris Tooley]

Do you have encrypt passwords = no set in your smb.conf?  If you don't
have an entry there about encrypting passwords, you may need to try the
PlainTextPasswords hack for Windows 95.  That may help some.

Chris Tooley

Mauricio Tavares wrote:
> 
>         It seems I am slowly making progress, but I am still not out of the woods.
>  Let's start by allowing me to show my config file:
> 
>   # Samba config file created using SWAT
>   # from shado.proedint.com (10.0.0.11)
>   # Date: 2000/06/29 09:39:09
> 
>   # Global parameters
>           workgroup = UFO
>           netbios name = INTERCEPTOR
>           server string = Samba Server 2.0.3
>           preferred master = Yes
>           domain master = Yes
>           wins support = Yes
> 
>   [homes]
>           comment = Home Directories
>           read only = No
>           browseable = No
> 
>   [public]
>           comment = Public
>           path = /home/public
>           read only = No
>           create mask = 0664
>           directory mask = 0775
>           guest ok = Yes
> 
> I configured my laptop (moonbase, running Win95B) to use the UFO workgroup
> and interceptor as its DNS (I set it up to do so) and WINS (ditto).  Using
> network neighborhood, I was able to *finally* see the machine there.  Then,
> I tried to open interceptor so I could access the public directory.  The
> error message I got in the laptop says "\\Interceptor is not accessible.
> No permission to access resource."  What does that mean?  I do not know if
> the user I loged into as in moonbase must be defined in interceptor.  If
> that was the case, I would expect to be greeted with a login prompt, a la
> SWAT.
> 
> Talking about swat, this is what is says when I check the server status:
> 
>     PID    Client   IP address    Date
>    26251  moonbase  10.0.0.26   Thu Jun 29 09:37:16 2000
> 
> Suggestions about what could be wrong and what to do/check are always
> welcome =)